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A recently analyzed Martian meteorite contains a surprising amount of water and provides insight into an important of Mars’ history. The 2.1 billion year old rock also confirms findings of NASA’s Mars rover, Spirit. More information, as well as how this meteorite fits in with our collection of other Martian meteorites, is in my Nature … Continue reading Two-billion year old Martian meteorite contains water [Nature]→

Scientists’ discovery of a large black hole in a relatively small galaxy is causing them to rethink our understanding of black holes and their growth. From my latest Nature article, Small galaxy harbours super-hefty black hole:

Recent research points to the possibility that our Solar System started with a now-missing fifth planet. This is the subject of my latest Nature article Did the Solar System start with an extra planet?: David Nesvorny of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado and Alessandro Morbidelli of the Observatoire de la Cote d’Azur in … Continue reading The Solar System’s Lost Planet [Nature]→

Although there is wide consensus on the theory that the moon formed through the collision of Earth and another object, the specifics of that theory are still not certain. And two new papers published in Science present two new significantly different takes on those specifics.

Saturn’s moon Enceladus has been known to have an underground ocean since 2005, and now astronomers are looking to Ariel, one of Uranus’ moons, as another possible locale with an underground oasis. From my Nature blog post, Could a moon of Uranus harbour an underground ocean?:

Saturn’s moon mix—different locations, different densities, some are ice, others rocky—begs the question how did they form. Current research by Erik Asphaug and Andreas Reufer provide a possible answer: According to a model proposed by Erik Asphaug, a planetary scientist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and his colleague Andreas Reufer of the University … Continue reading Moon Merging May Have Created Saturnian System [Nature]→

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